Can a planet be bigger than its star?

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Can a planet be bigger than its star?

FromDaniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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Jan 21, 2021

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What counts as a planet and is it possible for it to outweigh or outsize its parent star?
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Jan 21, 2021

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A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

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Can a planet be bigger than its star?

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